New Delhi: Former finance minister P Chidambaram is untraceable after Supreme Court turned down his plea for urgent hearing of his anticipatory bail application in INX media case. Officers from the Enforcement Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation had visited Chidambaram’s Jor Bagh residence last night, but the former minister wasn’t available there. The CBI […]

New Delhi: Former finance minister P Chidambaram is untraceable after Supreme Court turned down his plea for urgent hearing of his anticipatory bail application in INX media case.

Officers from the Enforcement Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation had visited Chidambaram’s Jor Bagh residence last night, but the former minister wasn’t available there.

The CBI has stuck a notice outside P Chidambaram’s house on their second visit, asking him to appear before the agency within 2 hours.

A three-member team visited Chidambaram’s residence early on today morning. This is the third time the top officials visited his place.

The senior Congress leader suffered twin setback on Tuesday when Delhi High Court first rejected his plea and subsequently the apex court asked him to move the appeal on Wednesday.

Soon after the CBI put up a notice outside P Chidambaram’s residence to appear before them in two hours, the lawyer of the former finance minister and senior Congress leader requested the CBI not to take any coercive action until the hearing of Chidambaram’s plea in the Supreme Court at 10:30 am on Wednesday.

Chidambaram is facing charges of corruption and money laundering in the INX Media scam. The order was passed by Justice Sunil Gaur. The judge had reserved the verdict on the bail plea on January 25 earlier this year.

In 2018, the Enforcement Directorate had registered a money laundering case in connection with the scam.

New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday conducted raids at 26 locations across six states including Odisha in connection with its ongoing probe into the NIOS examinations irregularity case in April 2017. Separate Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) teams searched the premises of National Institute of Open Schooling study centres, its current and former officials and […]

New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday conducted raids at 26 locations across six states including Odisha in connection with its ongoing probe into the NIOS examinations irregularity case in April 2017.

Separate Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) teams searched the premises of National Institute of Open Schooling study centres, its current and former officials and private persons in Bhubaneswar and Ganjam in Odisha; Bhopal, Sehore, Ratlam, Umaria (all in Madhya Pradesh); New Delhi; Fatehabad and Faridabad in Haryana; Guwahati, Kamrup and Lakhimpur in Assam) and Gangtok in Sikkim.

“Around 200 items such as hard disk drives, mobile phones and various incriminating documents including admit cards, vouchers, passbooks, mark sheets, checkbooks, seals, diaries, answer sheets of NIOS, payments received from candidates, fees payment made to NIOS and seating plan of examination hall have been recovered,” said a CBI official.

The central probe agency on Tuesday also conducted raids at multiple locations in connection with the case.

The CBI on July 23 had registered an FIR to probe the case following a complaint by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, alleging malpractices in the conduct of Class 10 and 12 examinations with respect to a large number of students (around 1,800).

Bhubaneswar: Sleuths of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested the director of Adarsh Group of Companies Saroj Patra in connection with the multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha. The CBI arrested Patra from Nemalo area in Cuttack on the charges of duping gullible investors to the tune of Rs 12 crore. The arrest was […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday carried out searches at around 40 locations in Tamil Nadu, including the residences of state’s health minister and the director general of police (DGP), in connection with the Gutka scam, officials said. The residences of Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and DGP TK Rajendran, besides that […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday carried out searches at around 40 locations in Tamil Nadu, including the residences of state’s health minister and the director general of police (DGP), in connection with the Gutka scam, officials said.

The residences of Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and DGP TK Rajendran, besides that of a former senior police official, among others have been being searched.

The scam came to light on July 8, 2017, when income tax sleuths raided the godown, offices and residences of a pan masala and gutka manufacturer in Tamil Nadu, who had been facing charges of tax evasion to the tune of Rs 250 crore.

The manufacture, storage and sale of the chewable forms of tobacco, including gutka and pan masala were banned by the Tamil Nadu government in 2013.

During the raids, the department had seized a diary containing names of those who had been allegedly paid by the gutka manufacturers.

The case was sent to the CBI by the Madras High Court in April this year on the plea of a DMK leader.

The agency had registered an FIR against unidentified officials of the Tamil Nadu government, Central Excise Department and the Food Safety Department in May.

Pune: In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday said it has established links between the murders of Bengaluru-based journalist Gauri Lankesh and Pune-based rationalist Narendra Dabholkar. The CBI said it had established the crucial connection before the Shivajinagar Magistrate’s Court in Pune to extend the police custody of one of […]

Pune: In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday said it has established links between the murders of Bengaluru-based journalist Gauri Lankesh and Pune-based rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.

The CBI said it had established the crucial connection before the Shivajinagar Magistrate’s Court in Pune to extend the police custody of one of the prime suspects, Sachin Andhure.

Accordingly, the custody of Andhure – arrested from Aurangabad last week – has been extended till August 30.

Medico and rationalist Dabholkar (67), who fought against superstitious beliefs through his Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), was gunned down near his residence on the morning of June 20, 2013.

Two unidentified motorcycle borne assailants fired several rounds at him near the Omkareshwar temple in Pune.

Almost four years later, Gauri Lankesh (55), journalist-cum-activist, was shot dead outside her residence in Bengalaru on September 5, 2017.

She also served as the editor of ‘Lankesh Patrike’, a Kannada weekly launched by her father P. Lankesh, and also ran her own weekly called ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike.’

Though the two high-profile murders were committed four years apart, in both these cases, the long suspected alleged role of certain right-wing activists, including those associated with Sanatan Sanstha and others, has now emerged.

In its remand plea, the CBI has not yet named any organisation/s which could be involved in these cases.

The remand application adds that during interrogation, Andhure revealed that one of those arrested for the Gauri Lankesh murder had handed over to him a 7.65-mm country made pistol and three bullets.

Later, Andhure – arrested by the CBI last week – claimed he passed it on to his brother-in-law Subham Surale in Aurangabad, on August 11, 2018. Surale in turn passed the weapon to his friend Rohit Rege in the same city, though the motives are not clear.

Andhure’s name was revealed by Sharad Kalaskar, a resident of Nala Sopara, Palghar, arrested by the Maharashtra ATS after a major arms haul there on August 10.

It was Andhure and Kalaskar himself who went on a motorcycle and shot Dabholkar that day, he (Kalaskar) revealed.

Now, armed with the fresh information, the CBI plans to seek Kalaskar’s custody, after his remand with Maharashtra-ATS ends later this week. The CBI will also apply for the remand of one of the accused arrested by the SIT of Karnataka police in the Lankesh killing besides making efforts to trace the missing motorcycle used in the Dabholkar murder in Pune.

“Some of the accused in the Gauri Lankesh case are connected with Sachin Andhure and Narendra Dabholkar’s murder,” the CBI remand application said, seeking the extension of Andhure’s custody.

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the Court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate against two former directors of Pune-based Samruddha Jeevan Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, Mahesh Kisan Motewar and Prasad Kishore Paraswar in connection with Rs 3.4 crore scam. The duo has been charged under Sections 120B/420/409 of […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the Court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate against two former directors of Pune-based Samruddha Jeevan Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, Mahesh Kisan Motewar and Prasad Kishore Paraswar in connection with Rs 3.4 crore scam.

The duo has been charged under Sections 120B/420/409 of the IPC and Section 4, 5 and 6 of the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act.

In June 2014, the CBI had registered a case of fraud to the tune of Rs 3,484 crore after taking over a case registered by Malkangiri police in November, 2013 in this regard.

In the complaint, it was alleged that some officials of Samruddha Jeevan having branch office at Malkangiri and head office at Shivaji Nagar in Pune (Maharashtra) were swindling money from the public through agents by promising to provide cattle and goats as well as high rate of returns.

Later investigations revealed that the then chairman and director had allegedly conspired to cheat the public by luring them through various schemes.

It was further alleged that the firm collected a total amount of Rs 3,678 crore from over 35 lakh investors, whose estimated maturity amount would be Rs 4,320 crore. Out of the said amount, only Rs 836 crore was paid to the customers, the CBI cited.

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will produce former media baron Peter Mukerjea before the Patiala House Court on Saturday in connection with the INX Media case. This comes five days after Mukerjea was sent to CBI custody. On Wednesday, the investigative agency was to move a plea seeking permission to record Mukerjea’s […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will produce former media baron Peter Mukerjea before the Patiala House Court on Saturday in connection with the INX Media case. This comes five days after Mukerjea was sent to CBI custody.

On Wednesday, the investigative agency was to move a plea seeking permission to record Mukerjea’s statement before the court in connection with the aforementioned case, as per provisions of Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

INX Media Ltd, which was owned by Mukerjea, had allegedly paid bribes to get a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval, which was facilitated by former finance minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram.

Meanwhile, on March 23, the Delhi High Court granted bail to Karti in connection with the case, against a surety of Rs 10 lakh.